OS 12.5 beginning rollout
It looks like OS 12.5 is beginning to roll out. Roku OS 12.5 Initial rollout date: September 12, 2023 Roku OS 12.5 includes new APIs for monitoring the current amount of available memory for...
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I had the update to 12.5.0 build 4178 yesterday on my Roku Express HD, and it has messed things up:
The Express does not appear to know what the TV resolution is when the Roku Express is in its faulty state, and outputs HDMI which my 1080p Panasonic TV cannot display properly - horizontal jitter enough to make the whole picture look a bit blurred at normal viewing distance, and occasionally a black bar at the top of the picture.
A software reset of the Express gets thing back to normal for a while (still early days, but will update if anything I haven't mentioned happens).
Advanced display settings/system/Advanced system settings/Advanced display settings/auto-adjust display refresh rate
is still set to ON (has been on since I initially set it up 8 months ago.)
In settings/display type / auto.
There is a warning "Unable to detect the TV's resolution" on screen while the fault is present while in the "display type" menu setting.
Any ideas or comments?
On 12.5 I can't get my TCL R655 to recognize USB drives.
For example, my main flash drive worked fine until 12.5 rolled out. I've tried reformatting it as NTFS then back to exFAT.
The drive flashes when plugged in (it's getting power) but the TV doesn't recognize it at all.
I've also tried pulling power from the TV, waiting, and powering it back on.
The flash drive works in multiple other devices, and worked fine on this TV until recently.
I've seen similar reports from others across the web. I think 12.5 (or something else recent) broke USB device support on some Roku devices.
Did you check the TV settings? You can check in Settings/System/USB Media.
The settings are fine, and are the same as they always have been.
Auto-launch is set to Prompt. Launch channel is Roku Media Player.
When testing, I'm manually launching Roku Media Player anyway. The USB flash drive doesn't show up at all. My network sources and media there are all fine. The USB device simply doesn't exist as far as the TV is concerned.
Being a TV, maybe there are separate hardware settings to enable/disable USB?
